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WATER
Water keeps turning up everywhere.
And magnetism is the key to understanding everything.
Oh, and earth was once a satellite of Saturn.
Part 1
Part 2
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Boeing 737 Max gremlins
And they're NOT from the Kremlin!
Here's the official story:
But that leaves too many questions open, so let's look further.
Suddenly activates?!
Repeatedly activates?!
Fights manual input?!
TWO HUNDRED error reports?!
This aircraft had been flying for almost three years when the first of these accidents happened. So, why did it take so long for one of them to crash? A software update?
A sensor failure?!
The clue is in the single sensor that the MCAS relies on. And it's NOT the Angle Of Attack (AOA) sensor that the stall warning system uses because there would have been nothing wrong with its angle of attack.
The problem would have been with the attitude, and that's related, but different, and, in this case, irrelevant. But, an aircraft depending only on a single gyroscope for input to a system that automatically, and uninterruptibly corrects attitude is a recipe for disaster.
Oh! Which sensor is it, then?
That's right. They never named it in that video, did they? Funny that.
Why not?
Well, never mind. You already know what it is anyway.
This is the result of throwing patches, kludges, and band-aids at problems, and why I take such pains to avoid them in my work.
Maybe. It certainly looks like that, but, as is often the case, a deeper dig turns up more curiosities.
Boeing was poised to let some air out of Airbus, which has been struggling with runaway costs as its constituent, European vendors have had their respective governments' subsidies (which was one of the clever tricks behind the very reason for creating the Airbus coalition), which were the only thing keeping them competitive, coming under increasing scrutiny.
But no longer.
Boeing may have just committed suicide.
May have.
There's something really suspicious about all of this, beyond what I've already told you.
Besides, it's not like Airbus planes haven't been involved in any strange events lately.
But here's the worst of it: MCAS is not the only gremlin hiding in these planes.
My apologies if this seems a bit too light for this subject.
And this raises a few red flags, such as why both of these systems were kept secret for so long. This is not the behavior of a commercial vendor, always happy to proudly proclaim any feature they feel gives them a competitive edge. No, this is the classic behavior of governments and/or state-sanctioned spook agencies, who have a long history of requiring manufacturers to install gear which the end-buyers/users cannot circumvent, in fact, ideally, aren't even aware of.
Ever heard of On-Board Diagnostics level 2?
Here's what Wikipedia doesn't tell you: It's well known to industry insiders that ODBII can be hacked to allow an attacker to completely remote-control your vehicle.
This feature is ostensibly meant to enhance customers' ease-of-use. Security systems, for example, can actually secure your car, not just locking the doors, but closing any windows AND DOORS that you may have left open. (Ever wonder why anyone really needed those power doors?) The unstated flip-side to that is, of course, that law enforcement is given a back-door into the system through which they can, when needed, cause your car to stop, and lock you inside until you can be apprehended.
This essentially means that your car is really their car; they're just letting you rent it, and drive it, as long as you drive when and where and how they say.
Paranoid, you say? It's not really for us, but for capturing anyone who might try to steal our cars? There would be no reason the CI ... mean law enforcement would need to apprehend you. Or whatever.
Remember this: Real car thieves don't break into cars. They pull up to your car with a truck, and your car is gone in 10 seconds, a bit longer if they use a towing service. Ever see any of those Repo shows? (And who would think twice about seeing a legitimate towing service scooping up a car?) That's how real thieves steal cars, and no security system that locks them inside will evere have any impact on them.
By the way, 1970s American TV shows notwithstanding, cars simply do not explode on impact. (Well, maybe certain Ferarris, but you don't want to see those pictures.) (I still have nightmares.) To even catch fire usually requires either a catastrophic impact, utterly destroying the entire vehicle, or an unfortunately well-placed strike directly on the fuel tank. But that's pretty hard to achieve on a 2012 Mercedes C250. Daimler doesn't like to boast about it like Volvo (but only because Volvo started boasting it first, and Daimler doesn't want to step into the role of 'me too') (they want to be seen as leaders, not followers), but they do take great pride in the fact that their cars are actually safer than Volvos. (Not that I would ever recommend any German car not actually made in Germany.) (Because you can't get them here.) (So do NOT buy ANY German car.)
In fact, I really need to tell you all about the Faulkner car some time.
Any wonder I hate to fly?
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Wut?
Didn'nt some federal judge tell Trump that he couldn't block anyone from his twitter account because that would be a violation of the first amendment?
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Wait ... what?
Cubans with more money than other Cubans?! In a Socialist nation? How can anyone have more of anything than anyone else?
They were actually in this same situation back in the 1970s, too. Cuba's only real product was tropical fruit, mainly bananas. And that was because other countries had pretty much outpaced their sugar production, which had suffered under Castro. And their only real trading partner was the U.S.S.R., but they only had so much need for only so many bananas. I mean, you should have seen the toilets in most places in Russia back then. Those guy needed porcelain, not bananas. Now, the Soviet Union is no more, and Cuba has to trade with other 'communist' nations, like Venezuela. And that's not necessarily because of the United States. Cuba just doesn't have anything to trade. They never did. Even as prosperous as Cubas was before Castro, sugar, tobacco, and bananas were their biggest crops, and tourism (to casinos) was their biggest business.
But that was nothing to sniff at. Say what you want about tourism, it at least brings more than mere money with it; it brings those who have money with it. And when people with money live in your neighborhood, all the property values go up. And other businesses come looking for a piece of that pie.
Now look at them.
In 2010, Jeffrey Goldberg, a national correspondent for the magazine, Atlantic Monthly, interviewed Fidel Castro in Havana. After more than three hours of conversation, Goldberg asked him if he believed the Cuban model was still something worth exporting. Fidel Castro replied,
"The Cuban model doesn't even work for us anymore."
Sadly, Goldberg failed to ask whether it ever really did.
Money is finally beginning to trickle back into Cuba, though ... via tourism.
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Nuclear
I'm sure I've mentioned that I lived next door to a nuclear physicist for several years. He was a big advocate for nuclear power, and even had a bumper-sticker on his car reading: "Another Nuclear Physicist for Nuclear Power"
Have I ever told you about Galen Winsor?
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Evolution or ReEvolution?
Did you hear about the bird that evolved twice?
Now, here's Doctor Chuck's take on it.
And, you know what? I'm not sure I disagree with that. It's pretty much the same conclusion I'd already come to myself years ago.
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Candace Owens!
I just can't stand interviews, so I rarely get past the first few minutes of most interviews, but Dennis Prager made an excellent point:
There are far more speakers than violinists.
There are more good violinists than good speakers.
But why?
I can tell you why.
Playing the violin well is very unambiguous. You move the bow like this, and you get that sound. You play this music, and people will love it. And you never improvise. It's all planned and practiced.
Speaking is very ambiguous. Sensing the reception of the audience is a gift. Speaking impromtu is de rigueur. While not really planned, the spirit won't fill your mouth unless you've invested the time in educating yourself in the subject. That's why so many speakers hold Q-n-A sessions afterwards.
Which is why I write. (As they say in the industry, I have a face for radio, and a voice for print.)
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Shrinking Moon!
If you think my belief in the expanding earth is extreme, consider that NASA believes the moon to be shrinking.
How can it be shrinking unless it expanded first?
Because it was bigger since birth, having been molten hot then, and cooling off now?
Then where did the seas come from? If they are some of the last of its surface to be spared meteoric bombardment, they should be higher, not lower.
By the way, the ESA is pretty sure the moon is hollow, a giant geode.
Ever notice the outside of a geode?
And then there are these:
Isaiah 1:22
Revelation 4:6
D&C 130:9
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I like this one.
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